Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-13


foundland and strewing the oceans
bed with their debris after melting.'
"sAre we to understand, then,
that you are one of these erratic
blocks or boulders brought down by
icebergs and deposited where you
are now found in the diluvium or
forest land of Prince Georges I"
Even so: and by digging thirty
to fifty feet down you will find at
every depth from the surface, scat
tered pell.mell, thousands Of my
brothers some larger even than Land
others different in constituents
"tCould you give us an idea
OF the time consumed in this sitting
up process By which good portion
of Maryland was formed r
Nature, my friend, does not
reckon by years. Like her God, to
her thousand years are as one day
and twice ten thousand years
would hardly be the correct time.
For when the thousands of icebergs
commenced their onward march,
strewing their debris upon the
oceans bed, to warmer seals, during
the pliocene, Zone of the divisions
of the tertiary tormation,) there was
then no Patuxent, no Chesapeake,
no Eastern Shore. The ocean ex.
tended then way up probably to
the Catoctin range in Frederick,
from so to 150 miles interiorly- in
fact, from its present coast line, and
ranging southwest as far down as
Texas -
Witness No. l can now retire
and we will question briefly No. 2
before concluding. sYour brother,
whom we have just examined, has
testified to us his great antiquity,
what changes he has witnessed in
our earths's crust carrying US over
periods aggregating millions of
years and giving us to understand
that he is stranger from British
America or perhaps a regular
Yankee from one of the New Eng
land States. Will you state now
your age and where you came from"
"One hundred thousand years
or more before Lord Baltimore's
landing at st. Mary's, bringing with
him civil and religious liberty to
give political life to continent,
was revealing gregariously with mil.
lions of congeners, with other uni
valves, bivalves and crustacions in
a shallow ocean. My brother, whom
you have just dismissed, told you
the truth when he said there was
then no Patuxent, no Chesapeake,
and where the poplar, hickory, chest.
nut, oak and other gigantic forest
trees are now growing in Prince
George, my native oceanic waters
held undisputed sway and we re-
yelled 70: ages in our warm tropical
waters. My brother, claiming to be
a quartzose sandstone, has told you
that his cold iceberg, laden with
sand, clay, gravel and boulders (of
which he is one, melted down upon
us, to the extent of 80 or so feet,
destroying millions of our genera
and species with the cold and silt.
He testified to truth. Do you doubt
it? Then travel the road leading to
Marlborough, and as you descend
the hill just before reaching the
village, are discernible in the strata,
exposed by aqueous erosion, wavy
appearances of qualification which
clearly indicate ripple marks. For
all such appearances ere made only
near the coast of a shallow ocean,
and but few feet from the surface.
His icebergs, after the lapse of ages,
silted US up from 80 to 80 feet, and
the carbonate of lime and oxide OF
iron has cemented us together into
a stratification of rock mari of which
| am but part, removed by human
hands to the surface. Unlike my
brother, who seems to be genuine
Yankee, / glory IN being a Mary
lander, and Prince Georgian at that.
l was never five miles from home,
though one hundred thousand years
DID,
"If the geological lessons taught
by the testimony of these two rocks
is replete with interest to the ag.
ricnlturalist in conveying to him the
proper idea OF the soil, how formed
through which his plowshare moves
it is of equal or more Importance to
the miner, for the great stores OIL
mineral and metallic wealth, such as
coal, iron, copper, lead, with the
more precious metals of gold and
silver, and their localities may be
determined by knowledge of this
science. Hence its great value aud
Importance
Physicians Have Pound Out
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